We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.